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Sources: Nintendo Shutters California and Toronto offices; Wants to move employees to headquarters

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UPDATE:

Phamit said:
Kotakut updated the article:

https://kotaku.com/sources-nintendo-shutters-california-office-1847966405

Nintendo says that they closing more smaller offices and want to move more people to their headquarters
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Nintendo closed its California office today, displacing roughly 100 employees, sources tell Kotaku.

The Redwood City location was one of three main offices for Nintendo of America, which is headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Sources tell Kotaku the closure included the resignation of the SVP of Sales and Marketing, Nick Chavez, who announced earlier on Friday via LinkedIn that he would be joining Kentucky Fried Chicken to help them continue to grow the Yum! Brands.

The SVP position was previously held by Doug Bowser, who was promoted to president of Nintendo of America after Reggie Fils-Aime stepped down in 2019.
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kotaku.com

Nintendo Shutters California And Toronto Offices

Employees are displaced following the closure of two of Nintendo's few North American locations
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Dekuman

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is't a lot of their maketing coming out of California? Will this affect the youtube team such as The Nintendo Minute ?
 
PlanetSmasher

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That's...an odd choice. I mean I know their HQ is in Washington but 100 people losing their jobs is pretty brutal.
 
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Between this and all the terrible software/policy decisions the company has been making (in an insane boost in cost of the Switch's already threadbare online service which now includes horribly-emulated N64 games, making some digital game inexplicably available for a limited time, recent string of bad sports games, etc), what the hell is going on with Nintendo these days?
 
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mudron said:
Between this and all the terrible software/policy decisions the company has been making (in an insane boost in cost of the Switch's already threadbare online service which now includes horribly-emulated N64 games, making some digital game inexplicably available for a limited time, recent string of bad sports games, etc), what the hell is going on with Nintendo these days?
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Arrogant Nintendo is back baby, that's what!

/s for the love of god.
 
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mudron said:
Between this and all the terrible software/policy decisions the company has been making (in an insane boost in cost of the Switch's already threadbare online service which now includes horribly-emulated N64 games, making some digital game inexplicably available for a limited time, recent string of bad sports games, etc), what the hell is going on with Nintendo these days?
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Very sure that those aren't even remotely related.
 
Hailinel

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So...where are NOA's Sales and Marketing departments now? Redmond?
 
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I think we will see a lot more companies closing small offices like this if a decent number of employees are full time work from home.

PlanetSmasher said:
That's...an odd choice. I mean I know their HQ is in Washington but 100 people losing their jobs is pretty brutal.
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It doesn't say 100 people are losing their jobs.
 
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Hopefully this doesn't end up affecting game localizations/releases or something. Not sure what NoA's total employee count is but that sounds like a pretty decent chunk of the workforce.

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It doesn't say 100 people are losing their jobs.
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What else is "displacing 100 employees" supposed to mean?
 
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Crayolan said:
Hopefully this doesn't end up affecting game localizations/releases or something. Not sure what NoA's total employee count is but that sounds like a pretty decent chunk of the workforce.

What else is "displacing 100 employees" supposed to mean?
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Offered relocation to Redmond.
 
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Crayolan said:
I guess that's possible though it's a weird choice of wording if that's the case. Why not just say "relocated" or "transferred."
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"Job displacement" seems to be a human resource definition. It's different from "job relocation" and "job transfer".

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delete12345 said:
"Job displacement" seems to be a human resource definition. It's different from "job relocation" and "job transfer".

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Yea that's what I originally thought. Only ever heard about jobs being "displaced" in the context of layoffs.
 
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mudron said:
Between this and all the terrible software/policy decisions the company has been making (in an insane boost in cost of the Switch's already threadbare online service which now includes horribly-emulated N64 games, making some digital game inexplicably available for a limited time, recent string of bad sports games, etc), what the hell is going on with Nintendo these days?
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This seems a bit much, none of these things are related at all. Havinga bad game, laying off someone ,messing up emulation is nothing new in the games industry and every publisher has done it before
 
tiebreaker

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Oh, sad for the 100 employees. Hope they land on their feet quickly.

A friend of mine also lost their job recently because of restructuring.
 
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From what I've heard, most if not everyone was offered relocation. Obviously not everyone is going to take that option because that is a pretty far move to uproot your family, so that might be why they used "displaced".

of course this is just from what I've heard
 
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Huh? Wow, I've lived in the Bay Area all my life and thought I knew every game company here but never had any idea that Nintendo had an office in Redwood City.
 
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stersauce said:
From what I've heard, most if not everyone was offered relocation. Obviously not everyone is going to take that option because that is a pretty far move to uproot your family, so that might be why they used "displaced".

of course this is just from what I've heard
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It refers to the position at that specific location being closed. They could take a "new" position which would be the same title as their current and that would be a relocation/transfer but effectively still a new position.
 
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Imagine having the job of the guy who just became President & COO of NOA and then going somewhere else. Maybe there's something behind the scenes I don't know. Just seems like one position removed from a dream job.
 
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mudron said:
Between this and all the terrible software/policy decisions the company has been making (in an insane boost in cost of the Switch's already threadbare online service which now includes horribly-emulated N64 games, making some digital game inexplicably available for a limited time, recent string of bad sports games, etc), what the hell is going on with Nintendo these days?
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Weird
 
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I follow Nintendos job listing twitter account and as a marketing guy I've noticed they have had marketing positions open up in WA instead of the usual CA within the last few months.
 
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Serenitynow said:
Imagine having the job of the guy who just became President & COO of NOA and then going somewhere else. Maybe there's something behind the scenes I don't know. Just seems like one position removed from a dream job.
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That would entirely depend on personnel. Bowser was picked as Reggie's successor based on more than just his title. Holding an SVP position that the current NOA COO used to hold doesn't guarantee any sort of line of succession.
 
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EloquentM said:
It refers to the position at that specific location being closed. They could take a "new" position which would be the same title as their current and that would be a relocation/transfer but effectively still a new position.
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Yep. Job's gone. Doesn't mean the employee isn't offered something else. Nor does it mean they are. All that can be inferred is that 100 people had the position they were occupying evaporate.
 
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Wonderment said:
Kit tweeted nintendo stuff in the last half hour, so not sure what the deal is with this.
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We just don't know and I feel gross just speculating about someone's work status like this, but assuming he worked out of the affected office, he may have been offered a new position/location transfer and took it.
 

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Serenitynow said:
Imagine having the job of the guy who just became President & COO of NOA and then going somewhere else. Maybe there's something behind the scenes I don't know. Just seems like one position removed from a dream job.
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If you're a marketing guy why would you necessarily weight NoA over Yum Brands as a "dream job"??? You're a professional not a fanboy. Execs leave all the time for more money or just a different role.
 
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delete12345 said:
"Job displacement" seems to be a human resource definition. It's different from "job relocation" and "job transfer".
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Displacement is a bizarre term that in years and years of reading business discourse, econ, political econ, econ geography, etc. I've never encountered. It sounds shitty no matter what but I'm guessing people were offered some version of move to X or lose your job, or now you're perma-remote (and possibly, you're perma-remote and covering the home office costs.) As someone noted above, possibly not everyone and technically it could be like being shifted to a "new" job that is anything but.

mudron said:
Between this and all the terrible software/policy decisions the company has been making (in an insane boost in cost of the Switch's already threadbare online service which now includes horribly-emulated N64 games, making some digital game inexplicably available for a limited time, recent string of bad sports games, etc), what the hell is going on with Nintendo these days?
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Uh... what? I know Era sentiment is extremely anti-NSO but I bet it's doing well just one click outside the most hardcore of the hardcore, the Switch OLED is already sold out everywhere, and the software sales are great in general. This reads like standard corporate cost cutting or "re-engineering" to me which sucks but is common practice (weirdly more so in US than in Japan so I wonder where the call was made and by who.)

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I hope the workers quickly get back on their feet. Sucks.
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The real bottom line regardless if displaced means fired or really forced into a sticky wicket. Couldn't agree more.
 
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Serenitynow said:
Imagine having the job of the guy who just became President & COO of NOA and then going somewhere else. Maybe there's something behind the scenes I don't know. Just seems like one position removed from a dream job.
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He figured the job experience was 40% of the reason for the promotion but he couldn't compete with the 60% being literally Bowser.
 
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mudron said:
Between this and all the terrible software/policy decisions the company has been making (in an insane boost in cost of the Switch's already threadbare online service which now includes horribly-emulated N64 games, making some digital game inexplicably available for a limited time, recent string of bad sports games, etc), what the hell is going on with Nintendo these days?
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Absolutely nothing.
 
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Aw man, since I moved here I always had a pipe dream to work at the a Redwood City office (not that they much use for my type of engineering expertise). Sad to see them close!

I think displaced in this sense probably means they're deciding whether to move up to Redmond or move on to a other job.
 
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Were these the jobs where people drive to retailers with Nintendo marketing posters and set up kiosk for the consoles?

Oh yeah the field team. Wonder what that job was like. Met some of these workers at Best Buy when they were marketing smash bros for Wii U and at the Switch events in Los Angeles during launch week. Good times.
 
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